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The Velus pick and the Claypool trade were already awful enough for me.

That’s possible, but that wouldn’t allow me to make a smart-ass comment, now would it?

He's a pure rental. And maybe there were some real medical concerns about him so he doesn't make as much sense for the Bears. But there's no way Sweat is worth a pick that's 50 selections better than Young. Both are going to hit free agency. Poles got fleeced...again. His trade deadline deals have both been huge overpays. It makes no sense to me that this guy refuses to overpay for FAs and even pay his own players fair market value, but he goes all out on trade deadline deals with draft capital.

I want it on record, unless I'm wrong then everyone forget it, I am intrigued by Eder still. Big guys take a lot longer to put it together command wise sometimes, and command and stuff taking a step back later in a coming-off-injury year is totally normal. The concern for me is health - can he even get enough reps to find the pieces. I still think there's a lot more to complain about than him and while I wish we still had burger, Eder is a lottery ticket I think cashes more than not and his upside is exciting.

Sadly, I think our Sox might make that list.

They had 20% of the list last year and he’s worse now than when he was with the Sox. Does Garfein think shortstop and third base don’t need fixing? Left field is solid? There are too many holes on this team. They are not getting filled.

Baseball needs to shed about ten teams that nobody cares about.

I don't think that's totally fair. I definitely like the non-chauvinistic atmosphere of this board that doesn't unfairly diminish a woman's accomplishments; at the same time I think fans are exaggerating about how "she's the one that got away." Being more qualified than Getz and having a longer resume isn't in and of itself an accomplishment. The Marlins also barely snuck into a Wild Card spot and were quickly eliminated, that was the only winning season under her leadership. Of course, it's a major step forward for the sport that she earned that job and performed it well, and I really hope it inspires teams to consider more women for executive roles and inspires girls to realize their potential; but again, those Marlins teams kinda sucked. They pretty much sucked this year too, it's just that anything looks better than the dumpster fire that was the 2023 White Sox. All this is to say, I don't actually think it matters that much who the 'top dog' is, what matters is the quality of the support staff. You can hire all these brilliant middle managers, but what's the point if they have no employees to manage? Is Reinsdorf going to pay salaries and benefits to 100 more scouts, coaches and analysts? Those people might unionize, that's the "risk" of hiring staff. I'd also speculate at Ng's academic background for the same reason as Hahn, these eggheads have been brainwashed into the mantra that "lean" organizations are the best option, that you only need 1 or 2 Ivy League types and the few technicians are just yokels who carry out orders. My belief is that these execs actually agree with Jerry about how to run a business and their ego is stroked by having outsized success on a shoestring budget that they can credit entirely to themselves. The only people who actually care about winning is fans.

That’s like a 50+ pick difference, and the Bears still have to sign him. Yikes

Not sure I would like this trade as a Bears fan. A very high second round pick for a 27 year old edge rusher who you have to immediately sign to a big money extension. Would rather have that pick in the Bears situation.

October 31, 2005 - Happy Halloween! As the White Sox were winning their first championship in 88 years, Sports Illustrated put Scott Podsednik and his winning home run from the second game on the cover. The long caption read, “World Series. In a Match Up of Two Title Hungry Teams, The White Sox Struck First, Dramatically Downing the Astros in Games 1 And 2.” Sports Illustrated then basically ignored the White Sox winning the series by only putting a small circle shot of the team celebrating in the corner of the following week’s cover, breaking a long-standing tradition. The cover that week was Peyton Manning and Tom Brady as the magazine previewed a regular season NFL game….not a Super Bowl matchup, not a playoff contest…but a regular season meeting.

They'll sign him. I mean the Bears have the most cap space in the league. It would be dumb to trade for him and let him walk. I wanted Chase Young more though. Maybe Poles was scared off of acquiring another player named Chase.

Don't teams usually "rush" college players?

Normally Bernstein bugs me, but I agree with him here. If you refuse to play to HIS strengths and insist he fits into your offense, you aren't good at your job.

Nobody is even discussing this series ?

If you're looking at the same White Sox roster as me, it seems pretty obvious that a reliever under team control in 2027 and 2028 is worth way more than 70 home runs over 2 years for a 2024-2025 team that otherwise is going to win 65 or 70 games.

As apparently I’m the Jake Burger hater because I do check the stats, this also isn’t true. His walk rate with the Marlins was 32% lower than with the White Sox this year and also lower than his 2021 or 2022 stints with the White Sox. His OBP improved with the Marlins not because of walks, but because he had a .225 BABIP with the White Sox and a .354 with the Marlins last year. His OBP improved because more balls dropped by chance. Now, he does hit the ball very hard, so it isn’t surprising that his .225 BABIP would be weirdly low and would go up after leaving the White Sox, but .354 may also be too high for a guy who isn’t a good athlete and won’t get tons of cheap or infield hits also. Further, his HR rate dropped in Florida, that may or may not be worrisome, or it could just be random scatter. The thing he did make progress on with Florida is a lower K rate. But, does that go with the lower walk rate and just suggest that he’s swinging even more aggressively? His swing rates are a little higher in Florida, but he must have been making more contact to get that K rate drop.

It's been 25 days since the last White Sox loss. That hasn't happened since April 2023.

Everyone is gonna be fast tracked until they decide the window is closed. They can’t even fathom the concept of developing for sustained competitiveness, let alone execute it.

making her 3 times better than anyone we have. The "if she wasn't female" stuff, tips your hand for everyone to see. Just saying.

She certainly knows more about baseball than you ever will. Just saying…

so we are an organization that went from one of the Worst GMs in baseball and one of the worst in team history to a guy who clearly wasn’t qualified for the job and was hired without a competitive interview because he couldn’t possibly look like he deserves the job if he had to interview… And average would be a problem? Do you realize what a monstrous upgrade average front office performance would be?

Yeah, why do you think we want her

I imagine that’s them trying to take advantage of the Diamondbacks going deep into the playoffs. Mooching off of their accomplishments.

Waiting for someone to try and connect the dots on here and think this is an obvious sign we are in on Ohtani…?

Burn it to the groooouuunnndddd

Let's see what Angels fans are saying: Bonus input from Royals fans:

the 113 OPS+, which is right in line with his career number. Plus, this guy isn't the typical 27 year old. He missed 3 full seasons. A 3.0 career WAR in about a year's worth of playing screams MLB player to me.

Jake brought that on himself by posting that picture from Lambeau field.

I'm certain Vaughn wishes he spent more time in the minors. Riding buses. Working with the minor league staffs. The stuff dreams are made of. He probably fought like crazy to not be moved up. Told them repeatedly he couldn't play the outfield. But they didn't listen.